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Why is my Windows laptop not querying local DNS server?
I have a local PowerDNS server on a Linux box. I can access it fine on my Windows laptop under Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). dig @main probitas returns the expected address. ping probitas and ...
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User's PC have 2 different IP in the same DHCP network
I currently have an issue with a user on Active Directory where their PC have 2 different IP address but in the same DHCP network (ex: IP 1: 192.168.1.10, IP 2: 192.168.1.11), gateway: 192.168.1.1). ...
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Set wsl2 to use host nameserver
I'm using wsl2 on Windows 11, and I recently encountered a problem where when I change networks, the wsl2 dns (nameserver at resolve.conf) address doesn't update, to match, and there for cannot lookup ...
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Why is windows 11 sending conventional DNS requests after enabling DNS-over-Https?
I enabled DOH on my Wi-Fi. It works. But using Wireshark, I still see explicit DNS requests and see the DNS server refusing the requests.
Why is this happening, and what's the meaning of DOH to ...
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How do I block range of incoming IPs in Windows Advanced Firewall
On Windows Server 2022 I am trying to block an IP range from
168.228.0.0 to 168.228.0.255
So having researched I came up with this:
168.228.0.0/16
However I am still getting DNS queries from random IP'...
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Unknown entry in Hosts file (Windows) for geoip.pango-paas.co
I was going to add an entry in Hosts file to make it easy to connect with a server. But when I opened the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts , I saw an entry for (changed the real ip to xx below):
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No internet connection, can't flush dns
I can't connect to the internet, I tried these commands, but none of them are working..
What's weird, is that when I wait around 10 minutes, the internet hops back, but the commands are still not ...
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Couldn't solve hostname for single host from my PC - ping not working
I can't reach another machine from my PC anymore, while other PCs can; I can't understand the problem, something got broken on my PC about DNS or something else.
Some more details:
The target host is ...
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Which Windows apps use the "DNS client" service?
I'm thinking of Windows 10/11.
Which Windows 10 apps use the "DNS client" service?
I guess Windows apps like browsers, mail clients, etc have their own DNS clients (also called "stub ...
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Access a network machine with ip address but not with the name?
In the File Explorer in can access the machine with ip address \10.xxx.xx.xx but cant access it at \hostname. I have two machines that have this issue.
Both the machines are on LAN. They have static ...
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Why can I no longer connect to SQL Server from another PC on my local network?
Why has a SQL Server client stopped connecting to SQL Server running on another node on my local network?
This has been working correctly for a long time. The client PC (PC A) was connecting two days ...
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Computer cannot resolve Firebase domain
I am currently debugging a chrome extension that I wrote, which uses Google Firebase for its authentication and its realtime database. Now, the extension is already distributed to a number of people, ...
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Windows 11 always try to use DNS setting from a uninstalled network adapter
I have a laptop which is brought to the office and then back home every day.
When I'm sitting in the office, I use a dock with a wired ethernet connection. I have a manually configured gateway & ...
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Resolution of specific domains is not attempted
Background: after an extended session of network testing (including crafting packets and changing the interface settings (the IP4 ones, not the hardware)) I have a situation I have never encountered ...
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As a user on a VPN how do I control which server a DNS request goes to
I work from home using a Windows 10 machine. It's connected to the company network using Forticlient SSL VPN. This uses split tunneling so only certain traffic is routed over the VPN. However, it sets ...
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